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Remote Learning “Slides”book

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How to Use this Slidesbook

  • This is a collection of tools, sites and resources that can support home learning.
  • Some of the tools require more preparation than others and this is reflected by a key at the top of each slide.
  • More tools will continue to be added as I become more familiar with them.
  • On the next slide are menus, organized by learning type. These link to overview slides and then detailed video slides.
  • Finally, the videos relate to using these with students out of school, many can be used in school too with excellent effect.

Key: Easy Set Up Medium Set Up Lots of Set Up

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Navigating Tool Slides

  • Each Slide has the following information about the tools:

Key: Easy Set Up Medium Set Up Lots of Set Up

Difficulty of Setup

Tool Name with Link

Examples for Use

Link for Free Use if Company Offers

What the tool is and how it is unique.

Tips for easiest use

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Menu by Learning Type

Screencasting

Alternatives to Lectures

Giving Feedback to Students

Creative Assessments

Sound and Video Recording

Formative Assessment

Discussion Forums

Group Management and Collaboration

Review Activities

Miscellaneous Activities

Guided Learning Tools

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Screencasting

  • Loom - extension
  • Screencastify - extension
  • Screencastomatic - extension
  • AWW App - online whiteboard for demonstration
  • Nimbus - easy screenshot and screen-recording extension

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Discussion Forums

  • Parlay - group discussion
  • Padlet - discussion board/virtual bulletin board
  • FlipGrid - video response
  • Socrative - short answer responses
  • NowComment - upload resources for discussion

Survey/Response

  • PollEverywhere - short answer/multiple choice
  • Peardeck - multiple response types

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Formative Assessment

  • Google Forms - quizzes (auto-grade and return), multiple response formats
  • Formative (“Goformative”) - real-time responses, multiple formats
  • Socrative - responses, game formats, etc.
  • Goosechase - digital scavenger hunt

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Sound and Video Creation

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Creative Assessment

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Giving Feedback to Students

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Alternatives to Lectures

  • EdPuzzle - video engagement
  • Actively Learn - reading engagement
  • Insert Learning - reading engagement
  • Wizer - interactive virtual worksheets
  • BrainPop (for WIMA only - sorry!) - short informational videos
  • Newsela - guided reading
  • NowComment - upload resources for discussion

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Group Management and Collaboration

  • BaseCamp - project management (tasks, chat, check-ins, etc.)
  • Trello - project task management
  • Padlet - collaborative, virtual bulletin board
  • Concept Board - collaborative, virtual bulletin board (with templates)
  • AWW App - online whiteboard for demonstration
  • NowComment - upload resources for discussion
  • Congregate - breakout rooms with choice

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Guided Learning Tools

  • Peardeck - guided Slides with response activities
  • Nearpod - guided slidedeck with response activities
  • HyperDocs - documents containing hyperlinks to activities
  • Slides - ability to embed videos, responses, and direct students through learning
  • Newsela - guided reading texts
  • NowComment - upload resources for discussion

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Review Activities

  • GimKit - student-created quiz game
  • Quizlet - student/teacher created review/flashcards
  • WordWall - interactive review activities
  • Quizizz - self-paced quiz review activities
  • Kahoot! - real-time game-show style review
  • Knowt - turning notes into quizzes
  • Deck.Toys - self-paced game boards

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Miscellaneous Learning Activities

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Learning Uses:

  • Interactive reading/articles
  • Guided “direct instruction”
  • Check for understanding

Overview:

  • “Making reading meaningful”
  • Interactive database of articles to integrate learning checkpoints

Tips:

  • Can upload a limited number of your own resources
  • Can use provided questions or customize your own
  • Tips from Actively Learn for Remote Learning

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Demonstrating information through Screen Share on Hangouts
  • Create quick drawings to showcase learning

Overview:

  • Digital whiteboard

Tips:

  • You can use any of the different tools (draw, shapes, typing, etc.)
  • You don’t need to sign in if you’re not planning to save the screen

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Video creation

Overview:

  • Simple drag and drop video editor for images and videos

Tips:

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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BrainPop (WIMA Only)

Learning Uses:

  • Simple cartoon videos

Overview:

  • Short 2-5 minute long videos perfectly appropriate for middle school topics

Tips:

  • All WIMA students can view videos through their email and password login

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Blogging

Learning Uses:

  • Showing process of learning
  • Record steps of project
  • Creating a resource to teach others

Overview:

  • Can use a number of different tools for blogging, but generally websites

Tips:

  • Give students parameters for how to structure their blog and what to write

What is it?

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Learning Uses:

  • Task management for projects
  • Group project task organization and management

Overview:

  • Project management tools for collaborative teams

Tips:

  • Create templates of your boards for group projects
  • Make copies of the boards with all the tasks pre-recorded for students ahead of time, then assign each “group” board to the students in that group

What is it?

How to Create a Template

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Learning Uses:

  • Challenging experiences for students to learn and engage with information

Overview:

  • Students use clues to solve puzzles and “breakout” of a virtual room

Tips:

  • You can make your own Breakouts using Google Forms and the response validation option.

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Clips (iOS app)

Learning Uses:

  • Very simple video creation
  • Compile videos and images together to tell a quick story

Overview:

  • “iMovie Lite”
  • Drag and drop movie creator

Tips:

  • Some students find it too simplified as it has limited editing options

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Infographics
  • Posters
  • Social media graphics
  • Invitations, Postcards, etc.

Overview:

  • Media creation tool that has a fantastic library of templates and images

Tips:

  • Give students a template to make a copy
  • Can upload your own images/icons
  • Canva in the Classroom E-Course

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Mind-mapping
  • Group brainstorming
  • Research organization

Overview:

  • A collaborative brainstorming tool with lots of features

Tips:

  • Create templates of boards and share links with groups
  • Sign in with Google

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Breakout rooms (with room choice)
  • Group work

Overview:

  • A breakout room tool with video conferencing where the participants can choose their room and the host can observe

Tips:

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Review Games
  • Gamification
  • Self-Paced Learning

Overview:

  • A teacher-created game board with various types of review questions

Tips:

  • Map out your game board before creating
  • Can create multiple paths

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Interactive videos with response questions
  • Checking for understanding
  • Listening and response assessments

Overview:

  • Use uploaded or YouTube videos and add questions

Tips:

  • Use the restriction to not allow students to skip ahead
  • Sort responses by question or by student for analyzing the data

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Video response
  • Language testing
  • Video essays
  • Demonstration videos
  • Work through math problems

Overview:

  • Video response system, set up classes and assignments to collect videos

Tips:

  • You don’t need to show your face on FlipGrid, there is a Whiteboard function.
  • Use the feedback/rubric options for added functionality

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Formative (GoFormative)

Learning Uses:

  • Formative assessment
  • Checking for understanding
  • Review practice problems

Overview:

  • Formative assessment tool to see an overview of student understanding

Tips:

  • Use in real-time gives the best effect, but can also give good data after the fact
  • Give students immediate feedback

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Flipaclip (iOS app)

Learning Uses:

  • Video creation through animation
  • Tutorial videos
  • Process/ demonstration videos

Overview:

  • A simple animation tool that allow students to create their own illustrated demonstrations

Tips:

  • Use shapes to create easy images
  • Use the “onion” tool to show previous layers
  • Copy and paste slides and then adjust with the lasso tool

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Feedback for students
  • Homework feedback
  • Feedback during project process

Overview:

  • Students upload images of their work using the app, teachers give feedback and comments

Tips:

  • Ask students to mark the specific areas they need help
  • Teacher creates the assignments for students to upload

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Formative assessment
  • Creative assessments
  • Collaborative activities

Overview:

  • You create a scavenger hunt with photo/video, text, or location missions

Tips:

  • Think about creative or open-ended missions
  • Assign groups of students if working in groups
  • Offer bonus points for going above and beyond!

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Video conferencing
  • Virtual study sessions

Overview:

  • Video conferencing through Google Calendar invite (auto-generate link to share)

Tips:

  • Can be recorded

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Formative Assessment
  • Quizzes and Tests (Locked Quizzes only work on school devices)
  • Creating Breakout rooms

Overview:

  • Survey and quizz format

Tips:

  • Play around with the different settings and question choices
  • Questions will auto-select the response type depending on your question wording

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Garage Band - iOS app

Learning Uses:

  • Sound recording
  • Music creation
  • Podcasts

Overview:

  • iPad sound/music recording app

Tips:

  • Students can create podcasts with multiple tracks

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Portfolios
  • Informational sites
  • Blogs

Overview:

  • Basic drag-and-drop free website creator

Tips:

  • Create from Drive and saves into Google Drive

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Review
  • Formative assessment

Overview:

  • Classroom game-show platform where students compete by answering questions.

Tips:

  • Some students find the app a little too competitive. Give option of Quizlet

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Headliner

Learning Uses:

  • Video creation

Overview:

  • Video editing most similar to iMovie, free for use

Tips:

  • A little more complicated to upload images/video

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Guided learning
  • Self-paced learning
  • Provided lots of resources/ instruction for independent work

Overview:

  • Google Docs that are self-contained lessons or units.

Tips:

  • Rename the links with the titles of the sites or docs for less confusion (highlight link, right click and select edit)

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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iMovie - iOS app

Learning Uses:

  • Video creation
  • Green-screen video creation
  • WormHole Challenge

Overview:

  • Movie-making software with lots of choice

Tips:

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Infographics

Learning Uses:

  • Demonstrating information
  • Visual “essays”
  • Persuasive writing

Overview:

  • Visual representations of process or data

Tips:

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Guided reading
  • Annotating texts

Overview:

  • Guided reading tool that allows teachers to insert questions, ideas, etc.

Tips:

  • Unlimited students, but limited to 5 lessons

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Review
  • Checking for understanding

Overview:

  • Game-show style review game

Tips:

  • Check the library of games before creating a new one
  • Now offering self-paced!

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • PDF Editing
  • Convert worksheets into virtual documents

Overview:

  • PDF Editor that syncs with Google Classroom

Tips:

  • Add PDFs to Google Classroom as “Make a Copy for Each Student”

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Review Practice
  • Checking for Understanding

Overview:

  • Turns notes taken directly into review quizzes

Tips:

  • Complete sentences work best for turning into quiz questions

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Instructional videos
  • Demonstrating learning
  • Providing feedback

Overview:

  • Screencasting tool

Tips:

  • Move slowly through movements
  • Narrate whenever possible

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Video creation
  • Slides into videos

Overview:

  • Easy, auto-created video maker, based on a script

Tips:

  • Can upload audio files of your own narration

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Guided learning
  • Checking for understanding
  • Formative assessment

Overview:

  • Guided learning tool with interactive

Tips:

  • Self-paced learning
  • Allows for uploads of slides and various materials

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Guided reading
  • Use as a jumping off point for discussion
  • Supplement instruction

Overview:

  • Guided reading tool with integrated activities and questions

Tips:

  • Text sets available
  • Lesson plans pre-made
  • Organized by subject and grade level
  • Integrates with Google Classroom

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Screenshots
  • Screen recording lessons

Overview:

  • Chrome Extension for quick click, editing, and sharing screenshots

Tips:

  • Use “visible part of page” for everything you seen
  • Use “selected area” for the snipping tool to get part of a page

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Discussion on artifacts

Overview:

  • Upload artifacts (articles, videos, images) for students to discuss

Tips:

  • Can sync with Google Classroom
  • Assign to students
  • Can make discussions private or public

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Parlay

Learning Uses:

  • Discussion
  • Interactive between students

Overview:

  • Online discussion tool

Tips:

  • How it works

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Discussion boards
  • Brainstorming
  • Portfolio tool

Overview:

  • Online bulletin-board tool

Tips:

  • The free version only gives three boards, but you can export data and reuse them

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Formative assessment
  • Checking for understanding
  • Survey groups

Overview:

  • A Slides integrated (Add-on) polling tool

Tips:

  • Free version limited to 40 responses

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Guided Learning
  • Formative Assessment

Overview:

  • Slides integrated question tool

Tips:

  • Allows for teacher-directed or self-paced mode
  • Dashboard gives great data

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Video creation
  • Storytelling

Overview:

  • Easy to use animation creator

Tips:

  • Only works on web browser

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Formative assessment
  • Review practice

Overview:

  • Make card sets of learning material, vocab, etc. for individual practice

Tips:

  • Check the library before creating anything new!

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Review
  • Practice and checking for understanding
  • At student’s own pace

Overview:

  • Quiz/review tool without the need for real-time play

Tips:

  • Lots of pre-existing content

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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PDF Editing on iPad

Learning Uses:

  • Editing PDFs
  • Virtual worksheets
  • Drawing on worksheets

Overview:

  • Currently the only way to write on PDFs for iPads

Tips:

  • Students MUST hit the Save button, and they cannot go back and edit previously written/drawn

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Google Classroom Rubrics

Learning Uses:

  • Immediate feedback
  • SBL grading

Overview:

  • New rubric feature for grading within Google Classroom

Tips:

  • Turn automatic scoring off for SBL
  • Use the same order of descriptors each time

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Screencastify

Learning Uses:

  • Instructional videos
  • Demonstrating learning
  • Providing feedback

Overview:

  • Screencasting Tool

Tips:

  • Great for quick screencasts
  • Saves to Google Drive for sharing
  • Tutorial Sheet
  • Can also be turned into GIFs

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Instructional videos
  • Demonstrating learning
  • Providing feedback

Overview:

  • Screencasting tool

Tips:

  • Move slowly through movements
  • Narrate whenever possible

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Synth

Learning Uses:

  • Discussions
  • Informational podcasts
  • Audio Essays
  • Acting out literary scenes

Overview:

  • Class-wide podcast creator

Tips:

  • Create podcast assignments and have students add to them.
  • They can comment on each others podcasts

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Podcasting
  • Music creation

Overview:

  • Audio recording tool that allows for multiple tracks

Tips:

  • Does have annotation available, but limited to time

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Stop Motion Animation

Learning Uses:

  • Demonstration videos
  • Process videos

Overview:

  • Video creation that involves putting lots of images together to appear animated

Tips:

  • Take WAY MORE pictures than you think you need!
  • Tips for Stop Motion

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

Overview:

  • Slides have a MILLION uses (information, interactive, presentation, movie creation

Tips:

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Discussions
  • Formative assessments

Overview:

  • Review student understanding at the class, individual student, or question-level.

Tips:

Back to Menu

What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Creative assessment
  • Curation project
  • Teaching reliable sources

Overview:

  • Creating interactive images, videos, and 360 content

Tips:

  • Students can sign up for individual account, but teacher classroom is premium

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Immediate feedback
  • Quick audio recording

Overview:

  • Quick and easy audio recording tool that shares via links

Tips:

  • Use with Comments in Google Classroom feedback

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Project management
  • Goal setting

Overview:

  • Project management tool with boards where tasks can be organized and reassigned

Tips:

  • Have students create all tasks in one board first and then rearrange

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Video creation

Overview:

  • More involved video editor, with more editing options

Tips:

  • Lots of stock content
  • Students can narrate their videos to show understanding

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Digital worksheet creation
  • Any type of learning
  • Guided learning

Overview:

  • Digital worksheet creator with multiple forms of questions

Tips:

  • Can upload videos, pictures, etc. into worksheets for interaction

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Review activity
  • Formative assessment

Overview:

  • Lots of different interactive activities for learning

Tips:

  • Could have the kids make their own!

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • PDF Editing
  • Virtual worksheet use

Overview:

  • PDF Editor app that works within Google Apps

Tips:

  • Giving error message lately, make sure to be signed in
  • Remember to switch the Save button over to Google Drive

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning

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Learning Uses:

  • Video Essays
  • Creative Projects
  • Tutorial videos
  • Unboxing videos

Overview:

  • Ideas for creative projects using movie creation an current YouTube trends

Tips:

  • Give students specific guidelines as to how to adapt the trend for your curriculum

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What is it?

How to Use it for Learning